Somalis built America, Rep. Pramila Jayapal claimed.
“You cannot talk about any achievement the City of Boston has had,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu insisted, “without mentioning the Somali community that has lifted our city up.”
Do we live in America or do we live in ‘Somalimerica’?
OTTAWA — Canada’s two main political party leaders won’t boast about the connection, but they have at least one important thing in common these days: As a new session of Parliament opens Monday, they’re both sitting on hot seats.
Facing upcoming periods that may well determine their political fates, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are both approaching hurdles they need to get over in the coming weeks and months to ensure their grips on power.
Her make-up free, shellshocked face was beamed into tens of millions of homes across America this week as Destiny Jackson recounted a horrifying encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The 26-year-old mother-of-six told CNN that her baby son was tear-gassed after she and her husband Shawn found themselves trapped in an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis while driving home from their older son’s basketball game.
An altered version of events was offered to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and Associated Press, with Jackson claiming her family was injured after she stopped to check on her mother, who had been attending the January 14 protest.
You can’t make this up…
Remember the poor sweet baby & innocent family tear-gassed while just driving home from practice? 😢
New info: Video from Jan 14 protest (live-streamed by activist Jonathan Mason) shows Destiny & Shawn Jackson in the crowd 45 min before tear gas hit… pic.twitter.com/Ra6eKP6Mo9
— ✌🏼Honey Bomb 🌻 (@honeyybomb) January 21, 2026
It’s sure a good thing her staff avoided booking rooms in “opulent” hotels when Canada’s self-described “watchdog for the homeless” jetted off on an extended junket to Egypt.
Marie-Josée Houle, a former punk rock musician who is now Cabinet’s $213,000-a-year Housing Advocate, and whoever accompanied her settled for rooms at the Marriott and Triumph hotels in Cairo.
At the end of last year, the government announced a programme designed to tackle the radicalisation of young men in schools. Teachers will be trained in how to spot misogyny in the classroom and children deemed to be at fault sent on ‘toxic masculinity’ courses – an attempt to ‘re-educate’ white working-class boys that’s guaranteed to spawn 1,000 memes. It was billed as a key component of the government’s strategy to halve violence against women and girls by 2035. Don’t worry about the grooming gangs – the real predators are the knuckle-dragging teenagers, as per Adolescence, which was festooned with Golden Globes by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association last week.
Two worlds apart.
Hundreds in the Alberta town of Stony Plain line up in -30 C wind chill weather to sign a petition so Albertans this fall can vote on a very important question.
Do you agree the province of Alberta should cease to be part of Canada to become an independent state?
At about the same time, in faraway Quebec City, Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the nation. He wants to speak of national unity. He wants to score support.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick revealed on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime Thursday who the sole booer of his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos was, and why he considered it the “greatest honor.”
Lutnick described the panel he was on at the Summit as “basically a very left set of talks where someone said we need a new form of capitalism, which I think is another way to say communism. And then they let me speak at the end. Then I gave a three-minute talk. And I just talked about my op-ed.”
Link to Lutnick’s FP article – Howard Lutnick: Why the Trump administration is going to Davos
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent needled Canada over the prospect of an independence referendum in Alberta this week, as President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are locked in a clash over Ottawa’s role in the hemisphere.
“Alberta is a natural partner for the U.S.,” he told conservative podcaster Jack Posobiec in an interview Thursday. “They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people. Rumor that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not.”
Scott Bessent discussing ALBERTA 🇨🇦
“Albertans are very independent people. There's a rumor they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not” 👀
Canada *could* be prosperous, but our Liberal policies hold us back. BIG TIME pic.twitter.com/gSvy3vx193
— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) January 23, 2026
A Pew poll released about a year ago noted that just 37 percent of American liberals identify as Christians, versus 82 percent of conservatives and 61 percent of independents.
In 2007, 62 percent of liberals identified as Christian, so the drop, particularly vis-à-vis drops in Christian identification for conservatives and independents, looks Cyclone steep.
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a great campaign speech Thursday.
The only thing missing was the election.
Might a snap federal vote be coming? Probably not, but it must be tempting for the Liberals.
One symptom is obvious. They’re already road-testing their campaign pitch.
One of the most persistent myths since October 7, 2023, is that college students organically gravitated toward militant pro-Palestinian activism. On those campuses that saw the most aggressive demonstrations, in fact, radical elements may have seeded the ground for disruptive protests.
More than 30,000 people using Ontario income assistance programs are finding themselves homeless anyway – a number that has dramatically increased since before the pandemic, according to a new report from a Toronto-based human rights organization.
And those surging homelessness rates are linked to stagnant income assistance as even the cheapest apartments tend to cost more than the entire monthly cheques from one major program, researchers from Maytree found.
For decades, the world treated Greenland as a sentimental footnote in Arctic mythology rather than a linchpin in global security and modern technology. This was strategic negligence with real consequences.
By contrast, President Donald J. Trump saw what Europe could not, or perhaps would not: that Greenland is not a quaint curiosity; in the 21st century, it is an essential security asset and industrial necessity for the West. “Everything comes over Greenland. If the bad guys start shooting, it comes over Greenland,” he said.
From the Arctic flight path of Russian and Chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles to the Arctic shipping lanes increasingly packed with Russian warships, Greenland’s importance has surged.
Last week, Becky Hamber told her murder trial that text messages were the only times she and her wife spoke about the two brothers they were seeking to adopt in such offensive terms as “idiot,” “dumbass,” and “it” — but that she never spoke that way to the boys’ faces.
On Thursday, she conceded that this wasn’t always the case.
President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday that an “armada” of American warships is heading for Iran and implied that military force could be on the table if the regime in Tehran continues murdering its own people to stay in power.
